NEW DELHI: The BJP on Saturday accused the Congress of insulting the people’s mandate and looking for excuses to hide its failure, even as the opposition party charged the Election Commission with partisanship following its massive loss in the Bihar election.The attack from the party came on a day the Congress continued to be in the crosshairs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While speaking at a programme organised by natives of Bihar in Surat, Modi said that as Congress is unable to explain the reasons for the defeat to its allies or to its members, its top netas have chosen the easy way out by blaming EVMs, SIR and EC. “They have found a way to make excuses. This excuse may keep them afloat for a while, but their cadre will not accept them for long,” the PM said. BJP’s chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni said Congress brass is incapable of introspection despite suffering repeated poll losses and credited the people’s trust in the governing alliance’s policies and programmes for its big win. Citing excuses to explain away its failures was a tradition in Congress, he said. BJP also played up the rumblings within the opposition camp to mock Congress for blaming the Election Commission.While BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh slammed the party for defaming the country’s democratic process and its institutions like EC, its IT department head Amit Malviya highlighted dissenting voices within the opposition alliance to say that the knives are out in Mahagathbandhan after its latest drubbing.Malviya said, “And now, senior Congress leader Shakeel Ahmad has accused Krishna Allavaru, Rahul Gandhi’s pointsman in Bihar, of disrespecting senior leaders and selling Congress tickets for cash… Mahagathbandhan was never about principles – it was an opportunistic stitch-up held together by corruption and self-interest.” He added, “The people of Bihar saw through it. They chose stability, development and integrity by voting decisively for the NDA.“Chugh said the people of Bihar have voted for livelihood, prosperity and development and emphatically rejected the “jungle raaj” associated with opposition.
